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UK Financial Crisis

How Europe's Double Dip Could Become America's

Robert Reich | Posted 06.25.2012 | Business
Read More: Financial Crisis, Europe Recession, Europe Financial Crisis, UK Financial Crisis, Double-Dip Recession, Recession, Financial Reform, Business News
Robert Reich

What's the problem with Europe? Don't blame it on the so-called "debt crisis." There was no debt crisis in Britain, for example, which is now experiencing its first double-dip recession since the 1970s. Blame it on austerity economics.

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A Lesson From the Brits on Bank Bailouts

Ted Kaufman | Posted 02.18.2012 | Business
Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Obama Wall Street, Bailout, TARP Money, Rbs, RBS Bailout, UK Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Too Big to Fail, Obama TARP, Business News
Ted Kaufman

I have never quite been able to understand how the decision was made to fire Richard Wagoner at GM but not Vikram Pandit at Citibank. Is running a huge bank really more complex than running a huge automobile manufacturer?

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Britannia Rules the Ripples?

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Sterling Pound, Francis Maude, Britannia, Federation of Small Business, Britain, British Empire, House of Lords, British Airways, UK Financial Investments, Beatlemania, Labour Party, UK Financial Crisis, British Conservative Party, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

The heydays of Beatlemania when the rock scene helped British exports seem a distant memory as Britons suffer the indignities of tightening their belts across increasingly widening girths.

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